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06/08/2017 12:01 AM

Wine, Women, and Song—Gala with Opera Theater of Connecticut


Artists sing “Libiamo” as a finale at a previous opera gala celebration. Photo by Susan B. Naumann

Opera Theater of Connecticut is holding its opera gala and wine-tasting, Wine, Women and Song, on Sunday, June 18 from 5 to 7:30 p.m. at Woodwinds in Branford. Selections of operatic and music theater favorites will be performed, and there will be tasting and testing of select wines presented by Ian Ford, former CEO of Summergate Fine Wines, importer of wine into China. Ford has lived and worked in the wine import and production business in China for more than 15 years and travels to the vineyards in Europe, South America, Australia. New Zealand, and the United States. He frequently leads and attends wine-tastings and expos in China and abroad. For more information, call 860 669 8999 or visit www.operatheaterofct.org.

Alan Mann of the Opera Theater of Connecticut at a previous opera gala celebration. Photo by Susan B. Naumann